The lot, which included 33 pages of handwritten drafts of a series of articles for Young India from 1921 and 11 autographed letters by Mahatma Gandhi, sold for 45,600.
Pictures of supermodels Kate Moss and Gisele Bundchen baring their bottoms are expected to fetch about 1.5million pounds when they go under the hammer.
The sale offered art collectors and dealers access to a range of contemporary paintings, sculptures and photographs, and was accompanied by online and mobile catalogues according to information released by the auction house on Tuesday.
Auction house Christie's had scheduled the auction for July 3.
The case pertains to the 340 MW Seli Hydropower Electric Project on the Chenab river in Lahaul and Spiti district.
Prospective bidders had earlier termed the reserve price as too high, while multiple legal woes of Mallya-led UB Group are also being cited by many as reasons for lack of interest in buying this property
The first original Apple computer hand-built and signed by the company co-founder Steve Wozniak has sold for more than $387,000 in an online auction.
'Earlier in my career DGs were nearly 100 per cent honest.' 'By the time I retired, many DGs have not been honest.' 'One DG asking me to go and meet a home minister whom everybody knew is a corrupt guy.' '
Let's take a look at some of the most expensive cars sold at auctions in 2012.
Merrill Lynch will auction 40 lots of exclusive Indian artwork on October 5 at Mall Galleries in London.
Fine arts auction house Christie's on Thursday sold artist MF Husain's paintings, including one for a hammer price of $ 1.4 million. Outside the Christie's building in New York, up to 30 supporters of the Indian American Intellectual Forum staged a two-hour protest chanting 'Shame, shame, MF Husain' and 'Boycott Christie's!'. At least 12 of Husain's paintings were auctioned, where the theme was South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art.
'If it doesn't, it will continue with measures to infuse liquidity, signalling a new cycle,' predicts Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
James Otis, who owns the personal belongings of Mahatma Gandhi including the iconic round glasses that are being put on auction on Thursday, has said that he is prepared to reach a financial settlement with the Indian government and take the items off the auction block. "But if the (Indian) government announces some major scheme for the poor, I will even donate these items," he added.
While you can land a very good bargain in an auction at times, you might need to deal with illegal occupants and dues on the property
The rough diamond of 236 carats was found at the jwaneng mine in Botswana and took 21 months to polish.
Tagged with hefty sums, the paintings of a host of Indian artists would be auctioned in Hong Kong on May 24-25. Among others, top-tier works by Subodh Gupta, Jitish Kallat, Anju Dodiya, and Atul Dodiya will be up for grabs on the opening day. The auction would also feature a selection of significant works by many Pakistani artists besides the ones drawn by their counterparts from China, Japan and Korea.
The politician, Rao Nadeem, who is also a property dealer, did not attribute any reason for selling off his property.
Auctioneers have said its Evening Sales, however will not be included in the partnership.
SBI has the highest exposure of Rs 1,600 crore to the beleaguered Kingfisher Airlines.
'The RBI's MPC will maintain the current policy rates (6.50%) at the policy meeting, given ongoing inflationary pressures.'
India's first integrated arts and film museum-archive-entertainment centre, The Osianama, has added to it's growing collection of Sci-Fi and Horror artworks from Hollwyood cinema, the latest being items from Jurassic Park and Aliens.
The online auction house had expected the item to be sold for $8,000 (Rs 5.2 lakh).
The sale lot of 61 pieces of art, which was spread across a variety of categories such as modern and contemporary South Asian art, prints, and photographs, realised an estimated sale price of Rs 23.8 crore. Pre-auction estimates had expected the sale to range between Rs 37 crore and Rs 52 crore. Around 11 pieces of art remained unsold on Day One, reports Pavan Lall.
This one's for all the shoe lovers out there in the world! A collection of sneakers has sold at auction for $850,000 (Rs 5.85 crore) to Canadian entrepreneur Miles Nadal. Sotheby's put 100 pairs of the rarest sneakers ever from Nike, Adidas and Air Jordan on sale in New York. All but one of the pairs went to Nadal, with the 1972 Nike Waffle Racing Flat Moon Shoe still for sale during the week-long auction.
A painting by Pablo Picasso has set a new world record for the most expensive artwork to be sold at an auction.
Over 60 of Mahatma Gandhi's most prized possessions, including a 'charkha' he used in Yerwada Jail during the 'Quit India Movement', will go under the hammer at a leading British auction house on November 5.
Mahatma Gandhi's 'charkha' which he used in Yerwada Jail during the 'Quit India Movement' was sold at an auction in the UK for a whopping 110,000 pounds, nearly double the expected price.
A cap worn by Sunil Gavaskar on India's 1971 tour of England, a signed coaching kit donated by Ravi Shastri are among the cricketing memorabilia that are up for grabs at two of Christie's ongoing online auctions.
Rafael Nadal's championship point winning racket from his 2007 French Open final victory over Roger Federer was sold for more than $118,000 at an auction on Monday, ranking among the highest-priced such memorabilia.
The efforts drew the spontaneous appreciation of Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
Legendary Mahendra Singh Dhoni picked Jasprit Bumrah as his favourite bowler, but the multiple World Cup-winning former Indian skipper refrained from selecting between Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma as batsman of his choice
Delhi-based lawyer Ajay Shrivastav purchased 'Ibrahim Mansion', the ancestral property of the underworld don in Mumbke village of Khed taluka, for Rs 11.20 lakh, the official said. Dawood's family had lived in the house before moving to Mumbai in 1983, he said.
'A rigid or overly broad interpretation could lead to a chilling effect on investments and growth in sectors traditionally driven by private initiative.' 'Entrepreneurs may fear that their assets could be arbitrarily appropriated by the State under the guise of serving the 'common good' without sufficient legal safeguards.' 'The judgment thus supports a more nuanced view, one that balances individual property rights with public welfare objectives.'
As many as 68 artworks went under the hammer on Tuesday evening and included works by the greats like Raja Ravi Varma, V S Gaitonde, F N Souza, Jogen Chowdhury, and Akbar Padamsee among others.
Christie's second art auction in Mumbai saw 78 works by Indian artists fetching a total of Rs 75.27 crore.
The estimated value of the sculpture is somewhere between $10,000-20,000.
A Street Scene In Montmartre has been owned by a French family for most of the time since it was painted in 1887.
Adolf Hitler's personal telephone which the Nazi dictator used to give deadly orders during the World War II has been sold for a whopping $243,000 (Rs 1.62 crore), more than double the starting price, at a US auction.
Coubertin created the interlocking rings, which are coloured blue, yellow, black, green and red on a white field, in 1913.
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